In “Searching For the Words to Describe Myself,” Safia Elhillo describes the tension between her Arabophone identity and her Blackness, highlighting instances where she is perceived through a singular lens that erases aspects of her multifaceted identity. How does her experience shed light on the intersectionality of race, language, and culture in shaping migrant identity? How does her narrative complicate the idea of assimilation within the melting pot myth?